Postcards from the West – For Full Orchestra

Postcards from the West – For Full Orchestra

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Download the score:
Devil’s Tower, Wyo. – Full Score
Aurora Borealis – Full Score
The Hot Air Balloon – Full Score
A View of the Mississippi – Full Score
Stream the music:
Devil’s Tower, Wyo.

Aurora Borealis

The Hot Air Balloon

A View of the Mississippi

Download the MP3s:
Devil’s Tower, Wyo.
Aurora Borealis
The Hot Air Balloon
A View of the Mississippi

Where High and Blue Meet

Corner of High and Blue Video ScreenshotYou never know where your next idea will come from. Not long ago, my jazz band, Chaise Lounge, was playing at the funky and highly regarded venue The Rooster’s Wife in Aberdeen, North Carolina. Much of the charm of this theater comes from its owner, Janet Kenworthy, who lodges and feeds touring bands with exquisite Southern hospitality. After sound check, Janet gave us directions to her house: “Walk out this door, turn right on High Street, then walk up to Blue Street and it’s right there.” “OK,” I repeated, “You’re at the corner of High and Blue.” There was a weird silence in the air, and after the perfect pause, our bass player, Pete Ostle, said meaningfully, “Man, I’ve been there.
How could this not be the next song in what singer Marilyn Older refers to as our “scorned-woman-slumped-over-bar catalog”? When we got home, I put pencil to staff paper and came up with a new song named after the intersection—and the mental state. Here’s a video of us performing it last week at our favorite DC supper club, The Hamilton: “The Corner of High and Blue.”